That Record Got Me High Podcast

This week, our guest Dave Brasgalla dialed-in all the way from Sweden to talk about The Buggles and their 1980 blast-from-the-futuristic-past New Wave gem, 'The Age Of Plastic'.
"And you remember, the jingles used to go..."
Video Killed The Radio Star - Erasure/The Presidents Of The United States Of America/Dragonheart/Ben Folds Five/Sophie Grey/The Alarm; The Sleep Of Reason - The Sleep Of Reason; Young At Heart - The Bluebells; Catscan - Hetch Hetchy; Roundabout, Machine Messiah, Tempus Fugit - Yes; Video Killed The Radio Star - Bruce Woolley & The Camera Club; The Plastic Age - The Buggles; Radioactivity, Autobahn - Kraftwerk; Video Killed The Radio Star - The Buggles; Video Killed The Radio Star - Sophie Grey & Trevor Horn (Live at O2 Forum Kentish Town, London); Kid Dynamo, I Love You (Miss Robot) - The Buggles; Ode To Joy - Wendy Carlos; Clean Clean - Bruce Woolley & The Camera Club; Clean Clean - The Buggles; Relax - Frankie Goes To Hollywood; Elstree - The Buggles; The Robots - Kraftwerk; Astroboy (And The Proles On Parade) - The Buggles; Eye In The Sky - The Alan Parsons Project; Johnny On The Monorail - The Buggles; Video Killed The Radio Star - The Alarm

Longtime TRGMH Patron Cathy Merriman is a devout fan of the band Cracker, and she's here to let us know that their 2002 release, 'Forever', STILL gets her high. Singer and chief songwriter David Lowery - also of Camper Van Beethoven fame - is in top form for this, the band's 5th studio album.
Songs discussed in this episode: Shake Some Action (Flamin' Groovies cover) - Cracker; Everywhere That I'm Not - Translator; Eye Of Fatima Pt 1 - Camper Van Beethoven; Teen Angst (What The World Needs Now), Low - Cracker; Flowers - Camper Van Beethoven; Don't Worry About Me - Joey Ramone; Brides Of Neptune, Shine, Don't Bring Us Down - Cracker; It's A Wonderful Life - Sparklehorse; Guarded By Monkeys - Cracker; When We Two Parted - The Afghan Whigs; Ain't Gonna Suck Itself, Ain't That Strange, Miss Santa Cruz County, Superfan - Cracker; Pale Blue Eyes - Velvet Underground; Sweet Magdalena Of My Misfortune, Merry Christmas Emily, Forever, Shameless, One Fine Day, What You're Missing - Cracker; I Wrote A Song Called Take The Skinheads Bowling - David Lowery

This week's guest, Los Angeles musician Matt Devine (Ventilator, Permanent Green Light, Medicine, Possum Dixon), brings us Hawthorne California's Redd Kross and their wildly raucous 1984 mostly-covers EP 'Teen Babes From Monsanto'
"A little drums, a little atmosphere, and it wails like this!"
Songs discussed in this episode: Blow You A Kiss In The Wind - Redd Kross (Live on KEXP 2012); Earthquake Song - Ventilator; Burn Out - Redd Kross; Doctor Wu - Steely Dan; The Tailor's Lament, Lansdowne - Ventilator; Lick It Up, Deuce - KISS; Bitch - Rolling Stones;  Deuce - Redd Kross; Citadel - Rolling Stones; Citadel - Redd Kross; 2,000 Man - KISS; Heaven Only Knows - The Shangri-Las; Great Big Kiss - New York Dolls; Heaven Only Knows, Ann - Redd Kross; Ann - The Stooges; Savior Machine - Redd Kross; Pinball Wizard - The Brady Kids; I'm Gonna Blow You A Kiss In The Wind - Elizabeth Montgomery; Blow You A Kiss In The Wind - Redd Kross; Linda Blair - Redd Kross; Clean Cut American Kid - Ill Repute; Linda Blair '84, Born Innocent - Redd Kross; Happy New Year - Ventilator

As debut albums go, you'd be hard-pressed to find one more foundationally influential to modern indie/alternative rock than R.E.M.s 1983 release, 'Murmur'. This week's guest Tim Quirk (Too Much Joy, Wonderlick) joins Rob as they attempt to convey the monumental importance this record had on their lives.
Songs discussed in this episode: Radio Free Europe (R.E.M. cover, live) - The Replacements; Radio Free Europe (Original Hib-Tone single) - R.E.M.; You Are Loved, Eric, Come Get On My Cloud - Wonderlick; Radio Free Europe, Little America, Wolves, Lower, Pilgrimage, Laughing, Talk About The Passion, Moral Kiosk, Perfect Circle, Catapult, Catapult (1982 Stephen Hague demo) - R.E.M.; Crush Story - Too Much Joy; Sitting Still (Original Hib-Tone single), Sitting Still, 9-9 - R.E.M.; At Home He's A Tourist - Gang Of Four; Shaking Through, We Walk, West Of The Fields - R.E.M.; Floating Toward Virginia - Wonderlick

This week's guest, singer/songwriter and author Wesley Stace (aka John Wesley Harding) brings us jazz organist Johnny Hammond and his 1972 Kudu/CTI Records release 'Wild Horses Rock Steady'
Let's get jazzy...
Songs discussed in this episode: What's Going On (Marvin Gaye cover) - Johnny Hammond; Here Comes The Groom - John Wesley Harding; One Last Heist, Penelope - Wesley Stace; The Movie Of Your Life - John Wesley Harding; Your Mind Is On Vacation - Mose Allison; Organ Grinder's Swing - Jimmy Smith; Fire and Rain - Hubert Laws; Cold Turkey - Freddie Hubbard; Also Sprach Zarathustra - Eumir Deodato; It's Too Late - Johnny Hammond; Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) - Grover Washington Jr; Who Is Sylvia - Johnny Hammond; The Girl From Ipanema - Stan Getz; Rock Steady - Aretha Franklin; Rock Steady - Johnny Hammond; Peace Train - Cat Stevens; Peace Train - Johnny Hammond; Let It Be - Hubert Laws; Let It Be - Aretha Franklin; Black Talk - Charles Earland; Shifting Gears - Johnny Hammond; I Don't Know How To Love Him - Yvonne Elliman; I Don't Know How To Love Him - Johnny Hammond; It's Impossible - Perry Como, It's Impossible - Elvis Presley (Live); It's Impossible - Johnny Hammond; Wild Horses - The Rolling Stones; Power Of Soul - Idris Muhammad; Power To Love - Jimi Hendrix (Live); Wild Horses - Johnny Hammond; Hello Dead Horse - Wesley Stace